08-10-2012, 12:12 PM
(08-10-2012, 11:57 AM)Niall Wrote: This just shows Tom that you've never worked as a proper mechanic. You can't beat the, what is now the old fashion method of working out faults manually instead of plugging a computer in and going "yeah it could be that" or just replacing things you think it could be until it finally works.
Most garages don't have 'proper' mechanics any more. Takes too much time and ups labour costs for the customer!! I'm sure there are a few that still use the old method, but not at main dealers....at Ford for example, everything went through the Ford main database thing for warranty work, this basically means the tech's have to do exactly what the computer tells them to do, even if they know its not right and theres a simple common fix that can be done!! And I was surprised when my local garage said about the Golf....'oh, we stuck it on the code reader and no faults came up....probably the DMF!' despite the fact it was the wrong end of the engine lol.
'Mechanics' is changing....as I've said before, we werent even shown the old stuff like a VE pump at college, pretty much everything we did involved the scan tool and a multimeter.
(08-10-2012, 12:01 PM)c.a.r. Wrote: Does Tom know that once upon a time not so long ago there were cars driving around which had no diagnostic port?!
The horror!
Funny thing is we're way behind America for OBD, all their cars were compliant from about '96 IIRC! Europe finally caught up and made it so all cars had to be complaint in '01 for petrol and '04 for diesel....but it is a labour saving system, the whole idea of of it is to reduce time and costs.....so why would you totally ignore it??
